Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-16
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

<Ihe Edgeneld AGreTt1Ser says that coal
HAS been found in that county recently, and
classes it as anthracite.
Senator Youmans, of Barnwell county,
will plant 515 acres in cotton this year, be-
sides his rented lands.
Engineer Heape, who shot and killed his
colored fireman at Branchville, has been
admitted to bail by Judge Hudson.
&C. P. Barrett, lawyer of Spartanburg,
formerly Of Pickens, has been bound over
for trial in the Spartanburg Court of Ses-
sions upon the charge of gambling.
An order has been issued to the Cap
tains of the Palmetto Regiment to select a
commanding officer for the Second Brigade,
the position lately declined by Colonel J..
@. Marshall.
The Greenville Ne,cs says reports from
all sections of that county agree that the
promise for grain crops is now good.
Wheat is generally reported small but
healthy and punching out we'll.
A negro is living in Barnwell county
who was born in Fairfield SO years ago. He
has twelve children and forty-eight grand
children, and his eyesight is as good as it
was when he was only twenty years old.
Rev. IT. H. Law, former pastor of the
spartanburg Presbyterian Church, has been
appointed Superintendent of the American
Bible Society for the District of North and
South Carolina, vice Rev. G. H. Wiley, de-
ceased.
A KershaW farmer says that he does
not intend to plant any crop on the low
lands until he first sees where the wasps are
building their nests. He says that if the
wasp builds his nest low to the ground there
will be no freshets in this year; if he builds
it high up we are sure to have high water.
An attempt was made to wreck train
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad last week, about two miles below
White Oak. A large pine log was laid on
the track, but its timely discovery pre-
vented an accident. An idiotic white wo-
man living near the scene is supposed to
have committed the deed. This is the Sec
'ond attempt at wrecking at the same place,
and both times this woman is supposed to
have placed the distractions.
The Newberry correspondent of the Co.
lumbia Register writes: A very sad occurs
renee took place yesterday afternoon at
Helena. d. N. Coates, one of Newberry's
self, or was shot by some one else, in the
back of the head with a pistol. It was
thought at first that the wound was very
slight, but during the night Mr.. Coates died,
and it is now supposed that the bullet went
much deeper than was at first suspected.
There is no cause assigned for the deed un-
der either hypothesis, and at the present
writing the whole matter is shrouded in
mystery.
Judge Cothran returned to his home in
Abbeville last week after spending several
days in Washington previous to the ad-
journment of Congress. He went, says the
Abbeville Medium, to see Congress in ses-
sion before he takes the seat to which he
has been elected He says that Speaker
Carlisle is wonderful man, and he was
impressed not only with his ability, but
with his character as we'll. During his
stay in Washington Judge Cothran called
on the President. He thinks we'll of the
President and believes he is honest, capa-
BILE, and independent. Judge Cothran will
take his seat in Congress in December, un-
less an extra session should be called before
that day.